The 7 Best Keurigs of 2023, Tested and Reviewed

Best Overall

Keurig K-Café Serve K-Cup Coffee Maker

4.8

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(Note: The No. 1 top-rated Keurig in our Lab tests was the K250 model, which was recently discontinued. It's still possible to find Keurig K250s on Amazon, but we named our testing runner-up as the official best overall since it is much more widely available.)

The K-Café takes the classic Keurig K-Cup coffee brewer and adds both a milk frother and "shot" mode that makes 2 ounces of highly concentrated, espresso-style coffee for lattes and cappuccinos. Our coffee-snob testers did not find that this machine could make "true" espresso, but it's certainly much less expensive than a dedicated espresso machine. (There are K-Cups made with "espresso roast" coffee, but the "shot" mode still doesn't brew coffee under high pressure like "real" espresso.) The milk frother produced a layer of fluffy peaks in our tests, though the Lab was disappointed to find unwhipped milk beneath the froth rather than a uniform texture.

On the standard-coffee-brewing side, the K-Café passed our tests with flying colors. It took 65 seconds or less to brew up cups in all four sizes available, produced nice hot coffee, and is very simple to operate. The milk frother attachments are also dishwasher safe, a rarity for the mostly hand-wash-only Keurig line. The K-Café's drip tray is removable to fit a tall to-go cup, and its 60-ounce reservoir is enough to make five extra-large coffees without needing to refill.

The machine has an attractive sleek look, but it's kind of an odd shape that makes it take up more counter space than it needs to. On the other hand, if you'll be brewing coffee drinks every morning, it's worth dedicating the square footage.

Price at time of publish: $190

Color: Charcoal | Water Reservoir: 60 ounces | Frothing: Yes | Strong Brew: Yes | Dimensions: 12.5 x 15.3 x 11.7 inches

Best Budget

Keurig K-Express Single Serve Coffee Maker

4.3

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The beauty of the Keurig is that it makes coffee-brewing simple—stick a pod in the machine, press a button, and you're done. The K-Express provides a no-frills version of that experience for just about the lowest price you can find on any Keurig machine. It can make the standard 8-, 10-, or 12-ounce cups and has a regular and strong brew mode, and that's about it. But it performed just as well as the other models we tested in brewing hot coffee, fast.

The K-Express comes in at less than 5 inches wide, which makes it easy to slide away on the counter when not in use, but it can handle up to a 7.4-inch-tall travel mug. At 42 ounces, its removable reservoir is smaller than that of other Keurig models, but it's still enough to make three or four cups of coffee between refills.

Price at time of publish: $80

Color: Black | Water Reservoir: 42 ounces | Frothing: No | Strong Brew: Yes | Dimensions: 12.6 x 4.6 x 12.9 inches

Best Customizable

Keurig K-Supreme Plus

4.7

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The great thing about using a single-serve brewer like a Keurig is that each person who wants a cup of coffee gets to choose exactly how they want it brewed. The K-Supreme Plus not only has three strength, three temperature, and five cup-size options, but it can also save three different sets of preferences so you can get your coffee your way with one touch of a button. Its 78-ounce reservoir is larger than most models and can make a lot of coffee before being refilled, and it's removable, too, making it easy to refill when it finally does get empty.

All Keurigs make a pretty quick cup of coffee, but our tests found that this one's a little slower than other models, taking a bit over a minute to make a cup, whereas other models were as quick as 28 seconds. It's also kind of a pain to clean, as you have to disassemble all the pieces and wash them by hand. (Keurig does make special rinse pods and filters to clean the interior of the machine, which of course you have to buy from Keurig.)

Price at time of publish: $200

Colors: Gray | Water Reservoir: 78 ounces | Frothing: No | Strong Brew: Yes | Dimensions: 13.4 x 8.3 x 12.2 inches

Best for Lattes

Keurig K-Café SMART Single Serve Coffee Maker

4.2

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The K-Cafe Smart is smart for two reasons: Keurig's BrewID system reads the particular pod you insert to tailor its settings to the coffee you're brewing and the drink you're using it in, and it connects to the Keurig app, which lets you start your coffee from bed (even via Alexa or other smart assistant). To satiate latte lovers and cappuccino connoisseurs, the K-Cafe features a built-in milk frother that works with hot or cold milk (and non-dairy milk, too, of course) and our Lab found extremely effective.

Via the connected app or onboard controls, you can use any of five intensity settings and six temperature settings to make your coffee exactly how you like it, and there's even an iced coffee setting that brews extra-strong coffee designed to pour over ice. It's good that you don't need the app, though, as our testers found the instructions confusing and couldn't get their machine connected.

Keurig managed to fit all this into a frame that's 4 inches slimmer than the original K-Café, saving customers valuable counter space. The item also has a large and easy-to-remove water reservoir that holds up to 60 ounces. As you might expect, you pay for intelligence: The K-Café Smart is on the pricy end for a Keurig coffee maker.

Price at time of publish: $250

Color: Black | Water Reservoir: 60 ounces | Frothing: Yes | Strong Brew: Yes | Dimensions: 12.7 x 11 x 17.2 inches

Best High-Volume

Keurig K155 OfficePro Premier Brewing System

4.7

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Great for small businesses or for big families that take their coffee drinking very seriously, this machine is ready to work. A simple touchscreen controls the brew temperature and other settings, and the unit can make a cup of coffee in four different sizes in not much more than a minute. The drip tray is removable, so you can fill a travel mug or taller cup of coffee easily. The OfficePro's huge reservoir is the big appeal for big coffee drinkers; it can make more than 20 small cups, or nine big ones, between refills.

Our Lab found the OfficePro extremely easy to use, with a touchscreen that's pretty much entirely self-explanatory. The water tank needs a few minutes to heat up when you first turn it on, but afterward it was able to make all but the 10-ounce cup in the less than a minute the brand claims. (The 10-ounce cup took a minute and 12 seconds, which is still solid.) The adjustable temperature works accurately and is a nice feature, but testers missed the ability to set the strength of the brew like they were able to do with the other Keurig machines. A nice feature, especially if you're using the machine in an office break room, is that all of its pieces come apart easily for cleaning with simple soap and water.

Color: Silver | Water Reservoir: 90 ounces | Frothing: No | Strong Brew: No | Dimensions: 13.9 x 10.4 x 14 inches

Best With Carafe

Keurig K-Duo Essentials Single Serve & Carafe Coffee Maker

4.5

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This machine is pretty much a mash-up of a classic Keurig and classic drip coffee maker, for a price lower than most K-Cup-only models. The single-serving side can dispense an 8-, 10-, or 12-ounce mug of coffee, while the carafe side can make 8, 10 or 12 cups. The carafe side takes a standard coffee filter and whatever ground coffee you like, which gives you a much wider selection of options than the K-Cup format. (There is a My K-Cup reusable pod that can be filled with any ground coffee, as well, but that's sold separately.)

In the Lab, testers missed the temperature and brew strength controls other Keurigs offer. They also found that the K-Duo Essentials took longer to make single servings of coffee than other Keurigs, perhaps due to the fact that the whole reservoir has to heat up before using either the carafe or K-Cup side. It only took a little over nine minutes to fill the carafe with 12 cups, which outperformed the other two carafe models we tested, though.

Price at time of publish: $109

Colors: Black or gray | Water Reservoir: 60 ounces | Frothing: No | Strong Brew: No | Dimensions: 15.8 x 15.7 x 15.8 inches